This book presents an exploration of concepts central to health care practice.

"Understanding Virtue Ethics" is an accessible and lively introduction to the subject.

"The Handbook of Virtue Ethics" brings together leading international scholars to provide an overview of the field.

From this analysis, author Stan van Hooft concludes that traditional notions of morality as obligatory should give way to an understanding of ethics as the social forms given to our caring for ourselves and others.

What is hope and what role does it play in our lives? In his fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the meaning of hope, Stan van Hooft shows that hope is a fundamental structure of the way we live our lives.

This book explains and espouses the values of cosmopolitanism, adjudicates between various forms of cosmopolitanism, and defends it against its critics.Cosmopolitanism has relevance for international distributive justice; peace; human ...

Presenting a philosophical exploration of the ideas central to health care practice this book explores such concepts as caring, health, disease, suffering and pain from a phenomenological perspective.

The aim of this book is to assist students and nurse practitioners to aquire and develop the critical thinking skills required for ethical, scientifically-based nursing practice.

A obra é uma introdução acessível e vivaz ao tema.